The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Changelog Media
Exploring with agents (Interview)
1 hour 36 minutes Posted Apr 24, 2026 at 8:00 pm.
Welcome to The Changelog
Sponsor: WorkOS
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Copilot and GitHub Next
70/30 flip and software hoarders
Open source in the agent age
Agent Flow and personal software
Sponsor: RWX
Gauntlet side quest
Intent and workspaces before PRs
Intent and the workspace primitive
One worktree per task
Coordinator, implementer, verifier
Your work is too important to do the work
Trust the model
Sponsor: NordLayer
The enhance-prompt dance
Developer identity crisis
AI as tool: restraint and what not to build
Reinventing primitives and zoomable maps
Language choices and delivery
Getting started with Intent and where to find Amelia
Wrapping up
Closing thoughts and stuff
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Today on the show I’m talking with Amelia Wattenberger — designer, data-viz veteran, ex-GitHub Next, and now designing Intent at Augment Code. What if the last 30% of any software project is about to become the hardest part you’ve ever done? That’s the argument Amelia is making today. We discuss the identity crisis developers are having as agents take over the keyboard, the epic redesign of developer tooling in this agent-first world, the arc from autocomplete to chat to CLI back to UI, why Intent treats a workspace as their core primitive not a chat thread, the tradeoffs between one-worktree-per-agent vs. one-worktree-per-task, and why she thinks prototyping just got easier but finishing got harder.